The good news is that the blackout of WTMJ-TV (Channel 4) on Time Warner Cable was resolved Friday afternoon. The dispute lasted one day shy of two full months.

"All I can say at the end of the day is that we’re being fairly compensated for our programming, which is what we asked for all along,” said Steve Wexler, executive vice president of radio and TV for Journal Broadcast Group. | Sept. 20, 2013»Read Full Blog Post(81)

Derek Luke (from left), producer Wayne Barrow, Jamal Woolard and director George Tillman on the set of 2009’s “Notorious,” which will get a screening at the Milwaukee Film Festival.

How did you spend your summer vacation?

This is not an idle question for two boys in "The Inevitable Defeat of Mister and Pete," who spend their summer struggling to survive. With the film, which screens at the 2013 Milwaukee Film Festival, director George Tillman Jr. again looks at an adult world through children's eyes, as in "Soul Food." | Sept. 20, 2013»Read Full Article

The program will include selections from Rameau's "Pièces de clavecin en concerts" and two of Telemann's Paris Quartets. A pre-concert talk begins at 7 p.m., with music at 8, at Cathedral Church of All Saints, 818 E. Juneau Ave. | Sept. 20, 2013»Read Full Article

When I finished Patrick Ness' "More Than This," my first thought was Ness has written the 21st century's version of J.D. Salinger's "Catcher in the Rye." My second was I need to assign this in a lit class because much like Salinger's book (and John Green's more recent "The Fault in Our Stars"), Ness' young-adult novel is a game-changer. This genre-bending, pulse-pounding book is provocative and philosophical and sweet and darkly funny and it's destined to be discussed and debated. Plus there's not a vampire or a zombie lurking anywhere in its dystopian landscape.

In the powerful opening pages, Seth Wearing, the novel's protagonist, is drowning. He may be "strong, and young, nearly seventeen," but he's tossing in the current of the Pacific like a rag doll. At the end of the gut-wrenching prologue, Seth dies. Then his real story begins. | Sept. 20, 2013»Read Full Article

Like "The Namesake" (2003), Jhumpa Lahiri's "The Lowland" — her second novel and fourth book — is a multigenerational saga, stretching from the 1943 Bengal famine into 21st-century America. But despite its puzzling inclusion on the short list for this year's Man Booker prize and the long list for the National Book Award, "The Lowland" is a disappointment — more diffuse and less assured than Lahiri's debut novel.

The early pages of "The Lowland" are dominated by Calcutta-born brothers Subhash and Udayan. Born in 1943 and 1945, they are inseparable as kids. But while they look like brothers and love each other, they couldn't be more different. | Sept. 20, 2013»Read Full Article

Jesmyn Ward's memoir "Men We Reaped" is as beautiful, and sad, and scary, and as bone deep in its sense of suffering as a song by Howlin' Wolf.

Between 2000 and 2004, five young black men she grew up with in rural DeLisle, Miss., died violent deaths, including her beloved brother Joshua. One died from a heart attack following drug and alcohol abuse; one was shot as he approached the steps of his own house; one died in a collision with a train; one killed himself; one was killed by a drunken white driver, who was sentenced to a mere five years in prison for leaving the scene of an accident. | Sept. 20, 2013»Read Full Article

The Skylight Music Theatre's Bollywood-style production of Beethoven's opera "Fidelio," which opens tonight, has attracted at least one special guest from artistic director Viswa Subbaraman's ancestral homeland.

Nirupama Rao, India's ambassador to the United States since September 2011, will attend opening night, and also plans to break bread with Subbaraman during her visit, according to the Skylight. | Sept. 20, 2013»Read Full Article

Two chain restaurants have opened their first City of Milwaukee stores: Pita Pit opened Wednesday at 2224 N. Farwell Ave., and Glass Nickel Pizza Co. opened in August at 1504 E. North Ave.

Pita Pit’s offerings include vegetarian and all-day breakfast pita sandwiches and salads. Franchisee Andrew Culp has said he plans to open two more stores in Milwaukee. | Sept. 20, 2013»Read Full Blog Post

The Waukesha-raised comedian and University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee graduate, known for impersonations of John Madden, Charles Barkley, George W. Bush, Bill Clinton and many more, will be back in Milwaukee Jan. 25 for a live show at the Riverside Theater. | Sept. 20, 2013»Read Full Article